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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

MARCH 25, 1935.

MURDER - BY GERM

INOCULATION WITH PLAGUE

show symptoms of lockjaw, the con- spirators, the prosecution alleged, decided on more drastic retion..

EXPERIMENTS ON PARTS

At the Haffkino Institute, Bom- bay, research is continually going on to find cures for diseases' frul poisons. So Benoyendra went to Bombay, but found that only a

TWO PERSONS qualified practitioner could obtain

CONVICTED

Calcutta.

serum from the Institute. Then Dr. Taranath Bhattacharya came on the score. Mostly due to his The germ murder case_ended standing, and the fact that he was recently with two death sentences alleged to have said that he was and two acquittals, one doctor and fexperimenting with a cure for a brother-in-law being found guilty bubonic pingue, the cultures were and two doctors being found not:

jobtained. guilty. They

accused of

were

buy

murdering D man by injecting: A Bombay bird dealer said that piague bacilli into him at the Benoyendra went to him to crowded Howrah railway station white rats. He had none at the here.

time, but the next day obtained some and sold two to Benoyendra for 78, d., and a few days Inter Bold him three others for 9s. stomacha of these white rats were shaved. The serum was rubbed into the skin, and the rats died of plague,

The case, which contained all the elements of a "thriller" novel, has been before the courts, in one phase or another, since December, 1932, It concerned :----

The

Amarendra Chandra Pande, aged twenty-one, with a large interest in an ancestral estate, who died of The scene shifted from Bombay plague on December 4, 1932: Ito Calcutta. It wna alleged that Benoyendra searched for crowded Benoyendra Chandra Pande, his places where a hypodermic syringe stop-brother, found guilty of plot- could be used on Amarendra in ting his death to obtain, pussession comparative safely, because the of the whole of the estate, and press of people would prevent his

Dr. Taranath Bhattacharya, knowing exactly what happened ar known for research work in Cal-who was the culprit. cutta, found guilty of conspiring the murder,

AUNT'S INTUITION Howrah Station, always crowded,

The two doctors who were ac-was selected, the iden being that quitted are Dr. D. R. Char and Dr. Amarendra should dle at a distance Shivapada Bhattacharya, both well-from Calcutta, and so give the known here.

CONTINUAL DISPUTES

sturgestion that he had contracted the disease on his journey. Ama- rendra went to Pakaur, about 150 The motive was explained by miles away, but returned the next Benoyendra's desire to obtain pus day, November 29, 1932, as he felt session of the whole of the ancestral unwell and wished a blood text to He also described what estate, which he administered, and be made. about which there had been con-happened at the station. Some of most eminent doctors were tinual disputes between him and the his atop-brother. The first attempt brought into consultation, but he at murder, it was said, was made died five days later, and his body by smearing tetanus serum on the was barnt,

WITIN of the

Three stalwarts of the British government as they left a conference on the new pance trèsties being arranged by England and France at No. 10 Downing St, London, home of the British Prime Minister. Left to Right, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Mr. Waiter Runciman and Mr. Anthony Eden.

P. 1. CONSTITUTION

MOMENTOUS MEETING AT

WHITE HOUSE

Washington, Mar. 24. President Roosevelt yesterday approved of the new Constitution for the Philippine Islands in the presenco of a distinguished

of the Philippines. Mr. M. Quezon, President of the P. 1. Senate, Mr. Cordell Hull and others.

EXPLOITING SUFFERING

make up auralists'

prescriptions

and also diagnose less serious cases themselves, just as opticlana now

Ido.

MEN WHO POSE AS SPECIALISTS

FOR AUTHORITY

(By A Special Correspondent)

bridge of a pair of new spectacles, presented by Benoyendra to Amn- One of the most interesting wit-gathering, which included Mr. MEDICAL DEMAND rendra, who returned them as they uses

the seventy-year-old Claro M. Recto. President of the

denc man,

Rani Constitutional Convention. Mr. did not fit. The prosecuilon aunt averred that Bennyendra said this Jyotirmayee Devi, who said she had Frank Murphy, Governor General was nonsense, placed them on his heard of the spectacles incident and brother's nose, and forces the also of the station incident. She bridge down so firmly that, one alleged that for two years she had witness ani Amarendra told him, carried on a silent battle for the It felt as if a vein in my head had safety of her dead nephew against burat."

the plottings of Bengyendra. She had known, by intuition, that there Although Amarendra began to was a plot, but could not foil it. Court-United Press.

GOING ON FOR YEARS

The exploitation of the deaf has been going on for years, but it in within the last decade that

anything like a scientific examina- lou of the ear has been possible.

The audiometer, an instrument which is a by-product of the im

The President, in announcing

mense strides made in wireless and his approval of the Constitution, In the House of Commons recent sound reproduction, was first dea- named Mr Recto as an Associately Sir Francis Fremantle asked the pribed if the "Lancet" by C. M. ft. Justice of the Philippines Supreme Minister of Health whether he was Balti ten years ago."

It has since aware that a number of persons

Child eats big meals...no

MOTHER IS HAPPY NOW longer run-down or cross

DOCTOR, SHE WON'T EAT, WON'T

PLAY, SHE'S RUN-DOWN AS YOU CAN SEE, NERVOUS AND CROSS.

WHAT 15 WRONG":

NOTHING SERIOUS, JUST GIVE HER A

LITTLE CASTORIA TOMORROW MORNING,

Doctors know what is usually wrong when a child won't eat, is cross and weak. Intestinai absorption, occur. sing even when a child's habits inay seem regular, poisons the systems, upsets the nerves, impairs digestion ... Son little Castoria is prescribed.

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Then Nature does the rest. Appetite returns. The child can't get enough tocat.Disposition improves and conn the little growing body fills out and becomes sturdy and strong. Now when your child won't cat, won't plny, is cross and fretful-lat a little Castoria restore buoyant health. Results will surprise you.

101

London.

having

o suitable qualifications much improved, and with its nid a were posing as specialists and pur-diagram similar to the optician's parting to treat and cure deafness diagram can be drawn showing the and head noises, and whether he exact degree of deafness lo be cor- would take steps to protect those rected. who were deaf from exploitation.

To this

Sir E. Hilton Young!

There is no doubt that denf aids

replied that he was aware of the would be used more than they are facts as stated, but that he was if they could be made less expen- powerless to take steps as suggest-sive and less bulky. Bulk is un- ed in the last part of the question, fortunately necessary because the The National Institute for the Deaf only way of applying the proper was, he said, always prepared to correction to the sound amplifier is advise those who were deaf on through the medium of at least one suitable aids to hearing.

wireless valve, for the operation of

For several years past there have which batteries are necessary. The been suggestions in the "Lancet expense is due to the small number and other authoritative medical made and to the necessity of using journals that an effort should be very amall high-grade parts. made to put the freatment of deaf- The National Institute for the ness, na regards nids, on the same Desf, 105, Gower-street, London, footing as is the treatment of de-w.C.), undoubtedly does very good fective, sight.

work, but the real necessity is, Opticians are registered after has been stated, for a properly con. passing a qualifying examination, stituted body of nuriciana. Such a and there can be no doubt at all body would give auralists confidence that there should bé a body of in recommending deaf alds of qualified auricians who are able to proper design.

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